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Three Tar Heels Named To ACC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Executive Board
The ACC announced its 2024-25 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Executive Board for the upcoming year, and the list includes three Tar Heels: Will Joseph (fencing), Riley Quartermain (women's golf), and
Kaimon Rucker (football). ACC SAAC representatives help to bridge the gap between administrative personnel and the University's student-athletes. (
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UNC's Academic Progress Rates Increase Again
UNC women's fencing scored a perfect 1000 for the 20th straight year, and the Tar Heel football team established a record four-year rate for the second straight time to highlight UNC's latest Academic Progress Rates for student-athletes. Twenty Tar Heel teams exceed the national average, including baseball, men's and women's basketball, and football. (
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UNC Strength & Conditioning Announces 2023-24 Honors
The UNC Strength and Conditioning staff has selected award winners for the 2023-24 school year, recognizing performance, effort, and improvement. The awards honor student-athletes from Olympic sports teams who excelled as part of strength & conditioning programming. Tar Heels were selected for Iron Ram, Most Improved and Newcomer awards. (
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UNC finishes school year with ACC-high six conference titles
North Carolina finished the ACC’s final athletics year as a 15-school conference with six conference titles, the most of any school in the league, ending a 44-year drought in fencing and a 39-year drought in men’s cross country. The Tar Heels won titles in men’s cross country, field hockey, men’s indoor track & field, fencing, men’s golf and women’s tennis. (
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UNC's Top Ten Scholar-Athletes Headline Annual Academic Luncheon
Headlining UNC's annual academic luncheon were this year's Top Ten Scholar-Athletes. Natalia Aseguinolaza (golf), Dorritt Eisenbeis (field hockey),
Christopher Holliday (football),
Rob Landry (basketball), Jack Loftus (lacrosse), Gigi Maroney (rowing), Alec Mulvaney (fencing), Peter Murphy (tennis),
Elizabeth Scotty (tennis), and Lauren Walsh (rowing). (
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RJ Davis, Aranza Vazquez take top honors at Rammys
UNC honored the best athletes and performances of the last year at the annual Rammys on Monday night. The top male and female athletes were no surprise, as All-American guard
R.J. Davis and four-time NCAA champion diver
Aranza Vazquez took home top honors.
Drake Maye’s left-handed touchdown pass at Pittsburgh was named Play of the Year. (
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North Carolina Third In Learfield Directors' Cup Standings
UNC scored 361 points, the seventh most in the country among the winter sports, to bolster the Tar Heels' overall third-place performance in the updated LEARFIELD Directors' Cup standings, which were released Thursday by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics. UNC has six top-10 finishes thus far in NCAA post-season play. (
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Carolina Insider Podcast: UNC Senior Night Preview; Hubert Davis, Matt Jednak Interviews
UNC beat NC State (6:13) and now have Senior Night (22:50) against a young Notre Dame team playing its best basketball of the season (27:07).
Hubert Davis joins for "Checking In with Coach Davis" (51:05). And UNC Fencing coach Matt Jednak discusses the men's program winning its first ACC Championship since 1980 (1:02:35).
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Tue Mar 5, 2024
UNC Beats Duke and No. 1 Notre Dame To Win First ACC Men's Fencing Title Since 1980
The UNC men's fencing team went 3-0 Sunday at the ACC Championships to earn the program's first title since 1980 and the ninth in program history. Fencing at Notre Dame's Castellan Family Fencing Center, UNC started with a win over Boston College, beating the Eagles 15-12. Next up was the signature win, an upset of No. 1 Notre Dame, 17-10. (
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UNC Student-Athletes Set Graduation Success Rates Record
For the fourth straight year UNC student-athletes set a school-record for multi-year graduation rates and set the mark for highest single-year rate as reported in the NCAA's annual Graduation Success Rates. Tar Heels student-athlete GSRs for the incoming classes of 2013-14 through 2016-17 were a record 92%. The single-year rate was also a record 94%. (
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